Partner at Bharat Innovation Fund, a Pre Series-A/Series-A fund focused on creating Deeptech and IP driven startups out of India. Board Member of PlayShifu.com and FireCompass.com. Board Member of US India Science & Technology Endowment Fund (USISTEF), Advisor to IoT startups, co-founded India's IoT ecosystem building thinktank, IoTForum and chairs India's top IoT conference, IoTNext.

Previously, Som was the Managing Director of Analog Devices India, wholly owned subsidiary of $6.5B global semiconductor company headquartered in Boston, and was based for almost 2 decades in Silicon Valley in various roles: Global Product Management and Marketing Director at NETGEAR, first employee of an early M2M/IoT startup in the energy management/Smart grid space and held several management and engineering roles at Cadence Design Systems.

He was a board member and executive council member of Industry Body, IESA (India Electronics & Semi Association) in 2016-18, and is an Advisor to International Software Product Management Association (ISPMA) India chapter. He is a MBA from Wharton, University of Pennsylvania, and an engineering graduate from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur and North Carolina State University. He is also a co-author of a book "New Kind of Computational Biology" that was recently published by Springer.